Abul Manzoor

Abul Manzoor (1940-2 June 1981) was a Major-General of Bangladesh who was a Mukti Bahini sector commander during the Bangladesh Liberation War who was the leader of the military coup against Ziaur Rahman.

Biography
Abul Manzoor was born in 1940 in Comilla, Bengal Presidency, British Raj. He attended staff college in Canada before joining the Mukti Bahini rebels during the Bangladesh Liberation War, becoming a sector commander and becoming known as a war hero, being awarded the Bir Uttom award and being made the youngest divisional commander of the Bangladeshi Army. Manzoor was transferred to Commandant of the Defense Services Command and Staff College in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1980 with the rank of Major-General, and on 30 May 1981 he ordered a military coup against Ziaur Rahman's dictatorship, hoping to make Bangladesh "a true nation of the people". He led his coup and killed Rahman at the Chittagong Circuit House, but his commanding officer Hussain Muhammad Ershad ordered for him to be arrested or killed. Manzoor surrendered without resistance, but he was killed on the spot by angry soldiers.